Brian H. Buddell is Senior Litigation Counsel for the firm.    He has extensive experience in many areas of civil defense including: Products Liability, Premises Liability, Complex Personal Injury, Toxic Torts, Wrongful Death, Auto/Truck Casualty Claims, and Insurance Coverage.

Mr. Buddell has successfully defended his clients in hundreds of arbitrations and dozens of trials throughout twenty-five of California's fifty-eight county Superior Courts.    He has also successfully defended appeals filed in the First and Third Districts of the California Court of Appeal and in the California Supreme Court.

He joins Brydon Hugo & Parker after serving several years as Trial Counsel for a major U.S. insurance company where he recorded an unblemished record of successful jury verdicts, including several in which the plaintiffs sought multi-million dollar awards of compensatory and punitive damages.

Mr. Buddell received his Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of California, Berkeley in 1990.    He then attended Golden Gate University School of Law where he was a selected member of the Mock Trial Team during both his second and third years.    During that time, he also worked as a Certified Clerk for the San Francisco City Attorney and received his Juris Doctorate in 1993.

Mr. Buddell was admitted to the California Bar in 1993. He is also licensed to practice in the Northern District of the United States District Court and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.